Monday, January 5, 2009

Monday, January 5, 2009

I'm not sure which is worse: the color scheme or the smashed floral squid-like creature lurking on top, its rosy tendrils poised to snag any unsuspecting guest who strays too close. ("Oh, look, hon! They spelled it right and everythin...AAAUGGH! It's got me! Getitoffgetitoff -HELP!!!)

Despite my dizzying array of sports knowledge, I'm afraid I don't know which football team out there dresses in orange, purple, and pale puke green. Any ideas, Ashley W.?

"its rosy tendrils poised to snag any unsuspecting guest who strays too close"...Fantastic commentary as always! The first thing I thought when I looked at this was that it looked like a giant spider on top of a cake....Orange? hmmm...

It looks like orange and blue to me, which makes my best guess the Denver Broncos. And it is just the kind of thing a Denver Bronco fan would do (I saw not one, but four houses decorated in orange and blue christmas lights this year with the message "Go Broncos" spelled out.)

Can't explain the puke green, but my best guess for team would be the Florida Gators at UF. I'm not a sports fan by any account, but living in the heart of Gator Country for 20 years makes one sure to recognize blue and orange together as meaning only one thing.

Perhaps the purple is supposed to be blue. Orange and Blue are the colors of several teams (Chicago Bears, University of Illinois, Auburn University all come to mind immediately). Of course, that would mean that the green was an addition of the decorator and had nothing to do with the team color scheme. In reality, I don't think it matters what colors were on the cake, it would be ugly anyway. This just made it worse.

I turned to my fount of sports knowledge, my husband, who says that if it is a professional team, it might be the Broncos. Their colors are deep blue and orange. If that is the case, it only adds to the wreck factor. It could be a college team though and then, anything goes!

I love the Washington Redskins and even had my wedding colors burgundy & gold. Heck we were introduced as Mr. & Mrs to the "Hail to the Redskins" Song...but our wedding cake, grooms cake & shower cakes were not football themed. Let alone had squid like roses on them. This is a wreck but not entirely the fault of the decorator. The person ordering played a hefty role in this abomination! I imagine she said. "I want to make sure everyone can get a rose w/ their piece" ::shudders::

And I quote: "I think cakes overall should use more orange, too, don't you? Year-round, I mean: orange is just underused." http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunday-sweets-autumn-awesomeness-in.html

I'm going to assume it's a college team, such as Clemson, which has purple and orange as their team colors. There are other colleges with the same drunken color combination, but Clemson stands out in my mind, mostly because my SIL graduated from there a few years ago.

Since my husband and I cheer for different college teams, our cake would have been plain white and no team related colors permitted.Thankfully, we eloped.

Well, as a native to Idaho, I can testify that blue and orange (if the flowers are indeed blue) are the colors of Boise State University. It's a running joke here that, between the construction-worker orange and the electric blue, you can see BSU fans coming from a mile away. XD (Though that cake looks more pumpkin and navy to me...)

If it's purple and orange, though, I'm stumped...

(Totally irrelevant but fun fact -- Boise State University's football field is bright blue -- we call it the Smurf Turf. Ducks have been known to crash-land on it thinking it's a lake.)

No, the Broncos are blue and orange. The first thing I thought of when I saw that cake was, "Now THAT'S a Broncos cake!" Indeed, it is something a Broncos fan would do. Being from Denver myself we're quite proud of displays of affection for our team and not ashamed of it--even in cake form.

All hail Saint John of Elway. May his blessed memory live on in all our hearts.

The funny thing is that no one knows of a team that's actually orange and purple (and green, if we're being picky), which means the decorator screwed up the colors, too! The purple should be blue OR the orange should be gold. Either way, it's gross.

Now being a color person, since these two colors are complementary colors (opposite each other on the color wheel), if you take a spatula and smear and blend the whole thing together, you will get the most wonderful putrid brown poo color!

Well it's funny how this cake is interpreted by different fans. It is possible that the wreckerator(and designer) is color blind but I am hoping that this is truely a misrepresentation of the intended design and colors and hope no one would request something this bad.

WV: Stawship - how this cake arrived on earth for all you trekies out there.

Got to be a clemson fan..... purple and orange....and well i can't explain the flower arrangement on the cake..I guess they didn't know when to stop.Oh yea, a rose bud for aunt jane, oh and the next door neighbor's, daughter's, step child, oh yea and......

Saw the colors, the sports theme and the "best wishes" and figured it was a "best wishes next year" for whatever team it represented. It looks rather morbid to me, and definately not something I would want to try to start a marriage out on a happy note with.

It's gotta be a Clemson cake. It's way too tacky to belong to anybody else! And can I just say how excited I am that a Clem$#% (it's a curse in my house) fan ended up with a Cake Wreck on their table?!?Go Gamecocks! THE University of South Carolina

John, I am a UVA alum and we do not consider it an insult to be called a despicable drunkard. It is actually a compliment, and entirely accurate. Private Ivy and I have probably sung "The Good Old Song" together... ;o)

Totally the Denver Broncos, based on all the "If God's not a Bronco's fan, why are sunsets orange?" bumper stickers displaying the 'blue' mountains at sunset; and my confidence that the greenish color is that of our state tree- the Colorado Blue Spruce- which is of course visible during sunsets.... if you're standing right next to some, with a flashlight.

OMG - I think I actually know who this belongs to? I had a high school friend who both her and her hubby went to Clemson University... their entire wedding theme was purple and orange. It was probably one of the most ridiculous weddings I've ever seen.... not to mention, hideous, even for a few die-hard fans!

Could it be basketball? The Phoenix Suns Basketball team is definitely Purple and Orange.

Upon seeing the cake, without reading any of the text I had two impressions: It seems to almost cause one of those optical illusions where it looks like it's spinning and that it was a Phoenix Suns cake.

Having seen this colors in many monsterous incarnations, I would say this is a University of Florida Cake. Orange and Blue... and that dark blue that you really can get to without makingyour frosting taste like printer's ink... Many Florida Groom's Cakes bear this nauseating combination.

Danville Ironmen from Danville, PA!When we were kids we HAD to have Converse "Chuck Taylor" sneakers in orange & purple, so you could wear one of each to the football games! Ok for sneakers, maybe not so much for a cake-but it's memorable for me.

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